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A51254	Breach upon breach, or, An acknowledgement of judiciall breaches made upon us, procured by sinfull breaches found amongst us with instruction, admonition, and encouragement yet to turn to him that smites us : as the sum of it was delivered at the funerall of Mr. Jeremiah Colman, late preacher of the Gospell at Hetherset in Norfolk, February 18, 1658/9 / by Tho. Moore, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2598; ESTC R9514	106,307	114

pans others of the Kohathites were over the Shew-Bread to prepare it every Sabbath And they had also their severall set offices and courses of singing praising and blessing in his name the Preists with Trumpets the Levites with other Instruments c. 2 Chron. 29. 25 26. each to wait on their office according to their order see 1 Chron. 6. 31 32. ch 9. 10. to the end 2 Chron. 29. 30. 31. with 1 Chron. 23. 24. to the end with chapters 24. 25. 26. totall 2 There were some appointed chief heads who were of the chief of the house of their Fathers that had the oversight of these severall offices and imployments who had themselves also some speciall service in them and were to look to the management of the rest as appeares in the verses before the text There were some chief of the house of their Fathers to oversee the whole charge and service of bearing the Ark and Vessels of the Lord c. So also we read of four chief Porters that had their set office and the oversight of the whole charge upon them who were therefore lodged round about the house as more devoted to the looking to and management of those affaires Likewise we read of chief heads of their Fathers appointed to be singers and of severall orders and courses of first and second degrees appointed by them 1 Chron. 6. 33 c. and 9. 33 34. c. and 15 16 17 18 19. c. see also Chapters 24. 25. 26. 3 The Preists the sons of Aaron and especially the High-Preist had the whole charge and over-fight of the whole Tribe of Levie and of their severall offices and service about the House of God and holy things when the Tabernacle with the Ark and Vessels of the Ministery were to be carried from place to place They were to appoint the severall services and burdens to the Levites and to cover the holy things committed to the Kohathites charge nor might the Kohathites look into touch or alter them least they dye and so to appoint and order all the other service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation And when they had rest still they were to appoint order and oversee the management of the whole businesse according to the Word of the Lord by Moses And to offer up and consecrate the Levites to their service and to offer the Burnt Offerings and the Bread of their God to make and keep the charge of the Oyle for the Lights and the Oyntments of Spices for anointing c. As in the severall Scriptures fore-mentioned may be seen and none of the Levites no not the heads or the chiefe of the heads of them to presume to doe any thing otherwise then according to and so as under their order For they the whole Tribe as they were devoted to the Lord so were given as a gift to Aaron and his Sons to minister unto them as in the fore-cited Scriptures may be seen Answerable to this their tipicall order There is an order to be observed by the holy Priesthood now in the service of the true Tabernacle and Sanctuary which the Lord hath pitched and not man And in their bearing the vessels of the Lord and Ministration about holy things in it As. 1 The whle company of them that call on him in truth being so sanctifyed by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ are therein prepared and made meete for this inheritance and called to this service to strive together for the faith of the Gospell to stand before him as an holy Priesthood to offer up spirituall sacrifices and to shine as lights in the world holding forth the word of life as hath beene shewed before but each according to their severall Abillities and Capacities by the grace given and gracious gifts bestowed and distributed to every man yet with this cautionary provisoe the women are not permitted to speak in every place not in the publick or generall assemblies of the Church where there are or may be not onely many daughters and attenders who are in some degree of simplicity waighting though yet they have received little But also many faighned as well as many halting believers and likewise many ignorant and some wilfull opposers comming in among them Nor is it seemly for them in any assemblys of believers so to speak or act as to usurp authority over the man and so not otherwise then so as they may be therein under obedience as that 1 Corinthians 14. 34. without the Translators addition is thus read It is not or hath not been permitted unto them to speak but to be under obedience c. in which saying as so read are two parts in such conjunction and the former so depending on the latter that it cannot stand without it and so this appears in the summe and scope of the saying That it is not permitted to them otherwise to speak then so as they be therein under obedience for so we find the like phrase or manner of speech in other Scriptures and in other cases carrying a like sense as John 5. 22. The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son Now that the Father doth now judge men and that without respect of persons is plainly expressed in other Scriptures 1 Peter 1. 17. John 12. 48. with 1 Cor. 11. 32. Therefore the first part of that saying cannot stand alone or without the second yea our Saviour saith in that same Chapter John 5. 19. that The Son can do nothing of himselfe but what he seeth the Father do So that the sense of the saying fore-mentioned appears to be this That the Father judgeth no man immediatly or otherwise then so as by committing all judgement to the Son and so judging and executing judgement by him like to which is that 1 John 2. 27. Ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth c. Now that they all needed the helpfulnesse and teaching of their fellow-members and brethren and that all believers do so while they are here in this present world is evident enough in the same Chapter verses 1. 12. 15-24 28. and in other Scriptures 1 Cor. 12. 21. c. Ephes 7. 12 13. c. But the sense is clear they need not that any man teach them but as that teacheth or otherwise then as that teacheth they need not any mans teaching that teacheth otherwise as 1 Timothy 6. 3. 5. So here it is not permitted into the Women to speak but to be under obedience that the first part of this cannot stand alone or without the second is evident in the Scripture for they especially the elder women are exhorted and instructed so to speak as to be teachers of good things Tit. 2. 3 4. yea women are commended for labouring with Paul in the Gospell Phil. 4. 3. and that a woman expounded unto Apollo The way of the Lord more perfectly we read Acts 18. 26. yea that

any man love God the same is known of him 1 Cor. 8. 2. with John 14. 21. 23. And as in any measure so sealed so far forth are they approved and as it were set apart by God to peculiar service in the Gospel And to be called forth and approved by their brethren Such therefore Jude instructs and incourageth to contend earnestly for the faith of the common salvation in Christ as once delivered to the Saints to be kept held fast and held forth by them Such I say as were sanctified by God the Father Namely with this sanctification of the Spirit which is the way fore-known and approved by him from the beginning for sanctifying persons unto himself by Christ in these last Ages so sanctified unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus preserved sometime and so found stedfast in Christ and called approved fitted and so appointed to such pecnliar service in the Gospel as also to such suffering for his sake as might be occasioned by such service Jude 1. 3. with 1 Peter 1. 2 3. 2. There is a dayly sanctification of themselves in the light and strength of the Lord that sanctifies them in and unto this service necessary to render them acceptable and profitable therein answering to that dayly and continuall tipical sanctification from tipical uncleanness wherewith the Levitical order and Priesthood were to sanctifie themselves and be sanctified to their service in which they were to sanctifie themselves and be sanctified cleansed and separated from those things in themselves in their own bodyes their marriages and works which according to the law did but tipcally defile and render unclean And also to be seperate from so as not to have to do with or touch any thing or person declared unclean by the law As we read Leviticus 21. and 22. with other Scriptures So here in the sanctification of the Spirit having these great and precious promises That the Lord will dwell in them by his word and Spirit in it even to sanctifie them According to those many Scriptures I the Lord do Sanctifie you Exodus 31. 13. Leviticus 20. 7 8. and 21. 8. 15. 23. and 22. 9. 16. Ezekiel 20. 12. c. And will also walke in them to manifest the savour of his knowledge by them They are in the light and strength of the Lord in whom they are what they are as such a House and Priesthood to cleanse themselves from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse so as in the feare of the Lord. 1. To lay aside put off and flee from those filthinesses and superfluities of naughtiness that are moved and rising up dayly from the old man the Law of sin still remaining and warring in the members the flesh lusting against the spirit as they have already in some measure been renewed in the spirit of their mind so to be alwayes putting off as concerning the former conversation the old man with his deeds and puting on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness of truth as the anointing even the word of truth which they have heard from the begining and received of him which abideth in them as that teacheth even so by minding the things of that spirit and walking in the light and strength of it as by the mercies of God therein put to remembrance displayed and commended they are moved and strengthened so to present and yeild up their bodies their whole man in all their Actings a living sacrifice to him that so that spirit in the testimony of Jesus which hath begun to renew the mind may dayly fashion and transforme the whole man in all his actings into likenesse to him according to that renewing of the mind Jam. 1. 21. 1 Pet. 2. 1-3 Rom. 6. and 12. 1-3 According to those many instructions and exhortations Purge out the old leaven even as yea are unleavened for Christ our passeover is sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. Seeing yee have purified your souls in obeying the truth as in the previous sanctification forementioned see that yee love one another with a pure heart fervently 1 Peter 1. 22. If we live in the spirit let us walke in the spirit seeing we have already crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts as to the spirit of our mind we have gotten victory and escaped the errors and polutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour so as not withstanding all those hinderances by the flesh with its affections and lusts we have knowne believed and owned him or rather been owned by him as his peculiar people let us not therefore suffer i● to reigne or yeild up our minds or members to it but let us resigne our selves to God according to the renewing of the mind as those that are alive from the dead and our members as instruments of righteousnesse unto him Be not desirous of vaine glory c. Gal. 5. 16-24 25 26. with Rom. 6. So cleansing our selves dayly and in all our actings from all filthynesse of flesh grosser filthynesse as the lusts of the flesh and of the eye as Ephesians 5. 1-18 1 Tim. 6. 9-11 and 2. 22. And of the spirit the pride of life all those desires of wisedome strength and righteousnesse in our selves or of vaine glory to our selves c. Which doe all war against the soule and make us and our works uncleane they even defile our holy things 2. They are also to come out from amongst and be separate from uncleane persons and fellowships so as not to touch the uncleane thing that God may receive and own them as vessels in whom he takes pleasure to manifest himself in and through 2 Cor. 6. 14-17 18. with Isa 52. 11. Jer. 15. 19. To have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darkensse but rather reprove them to forsake the foolish to stand up from the dead c. Eph. 5. 11. 14. with Prov. 9. 6. And in this also they are to cleanse themselves from all filthyness of flesh and spirit from fellowship with men in their evill and uncleane principles and practises whether more gross or more refined whether more openly or privily denying the Lord that bought them and being enemies to the Cross of Christ the power of Godliness so as not to touch the unclean thing 2 Tim. 3. 1-5 2 Pet. 2. 1 2. Phil. 3. 17 18 19. Rom. 16. 17 18. Here this caution is warily to be observed vide that they are not to shut out such uncleane persons from them from listening to their word or doctrine or to forbid or hinder them from turning and coming in to them in their acknowledgement and worship but they the chosen generation are to separate and come out from them in their doctrines and fellowships principles and practises that are uncleane so as not to have any fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse They are to cease to heare the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge

not come nigh him The Lord our God would graciously have hidden us from the reproach and shame of our iniquities and compassed us about with songs of deliverance Psalm 32. 5 6 7. For he meeteth them that rejoyce and work righteousness and remember him in his wayes in those is continuance and we shall be saved But we are all as an unclean thing and our righteousness in so giving glory to him as therein taking shame to our selves and hearty confession of our sins in the confession of his name and ascribing righteousness to him is as filthy raggs We all do fade as a leaf If at any time there be any little sence off and humbling under his mighty hand when lifted up our goodness as the morning dew early passeth away yea our iniquities like the Winde hath taken us away And there is none that calleth upon his Name or stirreth up himself to take hold of him as we are instructed Isaiah 27. 5 6. See chap. 64. 5 7. Is not this complaint verified among us I speak it with shame and grief as my self with my brethren falling under the reproof of it That in all our cryings and prayings to God when this evil was already come upon us in the sentence of it and when as yet the finishing of the execution of it might have been prevented yet we have not hitherto made our prayer unto God that we might turn from our iniquities and understand his truth Therefore hath the Lord watched for the evil and brought it upon us for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doth for we obeyed not his voice Daniel 9. 13 14. And because we did it not at the first Therefore the Lord our God hath made this breach upon us And this leads us unto the particular view of those evils bewailed in the Text unto which this acknowledgement is here applyed We sought him not after the due order That is they did not this at the first unto which he had now instructed and counselled them It 's here to be noted That he directs his councel to the chief of the Fathers of the Priests the sons of A●●on and of the Levites which whole Tribe were separated from the re●t of the Congregation and given unto Aaron and to his sons the Priests to Mini●ter unto them and to keep their charge and the charge of the whole Congregation to do the service of the Tabernacle to keep and bear the Vessels of the Lord and to Minister to and with the Priests about holy things and so with the Priests were devoted unto God instead of all the first born of the children of Israel Numbers 3. 1. 13. 45. c. and chap. 18. 1. 7. I say to the chief of the Fathers of them he directs his councel signifying that they were especially to keep and look to the keeping of this charge sanctifie your selves yee and your brethren c. ●o which also agrees 2 Chron. 29. tot The councel he gives is To sanctifie themselves they and their brethren that they might bring up the Ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place he had prepared for it For because ye did not this at the fir●t The Lord our God made a breach upon us The evils then for which God made this breach upon them were 1. That the Priests and Levites did not Sanctifie themselves unto nor keep their charge as to bearing the Vessels of the Lord. 2. That the chief of the Fathers of them were negligent● or not diligent in their care over the rest and looking to the whole charge of their Ministry about holy things Now that we may apply this to our selves and see how far we are guilty of the like evils as answering to these we are to consider 1. Who are the holy Priesthood and chosen Generation that are appointed to bear the Vessels of the Lord and Minister for and to others about holy things now under the Gospel 2. What is their charge 3. How they should be sanctified to it 4. What order is to be observed in the managing their affairs and how it answers to their order in the management of their tipical affairs under the law 1. The Priest-hood is changed since the rising of the great High-Priest after the order of Melchizedeck even the man Christ Jesus through sufferings glorified in the same body in which he bore our sins on the tree For no man taketh this honour unto himself but he that is called of God as was Aaron so also Christ glorified not himself to be made an High-Priest But he that said unto him Thou art my Son To day have I begotten thee he that prepared him a body he that raised him from the Dead now no more to return to corruption even the same said unto him Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedeck Not after the law of a Carnal Commandement but after the power of an endless life For because this man continueth ever therefore he hath an unchangeable Priesthood therefore the Father hath made him in his own person the Great and everlasting Apostle and High-Priest of our profession And therefore also hath given unto him all those who through the power of the Heavenly call with which he calleth all in due time even through the discoveries and influences of that life in him flowing from him and through him by which the Father draweth to him are therein drawn and chosen out of the World unto obedience the obedience of saith and to the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ These the Father hath given to him to be his house an holy Priest-hood to him and so in a sense or after some sort they are partakers with him of his Heavenly calling to minister to and with him about the holy things of the true sanctuary which the Lord pitched and not man to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by him Heb. 3. 1. 6. 1 Pet. 2 3 4 5 9 10. Joh. 17. 18. 20. c. Rom. 8. 28. 30. The Ministration about holy things for and unto others is not limitted to men of any one outward degree order or dignity in the world not to men wise and learned in the wisdome of this world which is science falsly so called as to these things and comes to nought nor to men honourable approved of and of high account with men no not so ●uch as are most eminently gifted among believers much less to such of them as have the worldly furniture approbation and authority But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every one that by that one Spirit are baptized into that one body of Christ whether they be Jews or Gentiles bond or free to profit others with all 1 Corinthians 12. 7. 11. Ephesians 4. 4. 7. 11 12. 1 Cor. 14. 31. 1 Peter 4. 10 11. They all coming to him as to a living stone That is coming in the drawing and quickning force of the influences of